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Tennessee ; but on the nineteenth of December simi-
lar communications and instructions with those to
the neighboring states, were dispatched by express,
to the governor, and a general officer of the western
division of the state ; and on the twenty-third of De-
cember, our confidential agent left Frankfort for Nash-
ville, to put into activity, the means of that state also.
But by information received yesterday, I learn that
on the twenty-second of December, Mr. Burr de-
scended the Cumberland, with two boats merely of
accomodation, carrying from that state no quota
towards his unlawful enterprise. Whether after the
arrival of the proclamation, of the orders, or of our
agent, any exertion which could be made by that
state, or the orders of the governor of Kentucky for
calling our the militia at the mouth of Cumberland,
would be in time to arrest these boats, and those from
the falls of Ohio, is still doubtful.

On the whole, the fugitives from the Ohio, with
their associates from Cumberland, or any other place
in that quarter, cannot threaten serious danger to the
city of New Orleans.

By the same express of December nineteenth, or-
ders were sent to the governors of Orleans and Mis-
sissippi, supplementary to those which had been given
on the twenty-fifth of November, to hold the militia
of their territories in readiness to cooperate for their
defence with the regular troops and armed vessels
then under command of general Wilkinson. Great
alarm indeed was excited at New Orleans, by the
exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr, desseminated
throug his emissaries, of the armies and navies he
was to assemble there. General Wilkinson had ar-
rived there himself on the twenty-fourth of Novem-
ber, and had immediately put into activity the re-
sources of the place, for the purpose of its defence ;
and on the tenth of December, he was joined by his
troops from the Sabine. Great zeal was shewn by the
inhabitants generally ; the merchants of the place